Halloween

Fiction | Prompt

What?!

How can that be?

Don’t they know I can not be alarmed?

How insensitive!

How outrageous!

I was having breakfast when I remembered I had to stop by my grandmother’s house to get 3 pumpkins.

We are going to carve them into freakish Halloween pumpkins and put them on the porch with lights inside them so that our house gets some Halloween decorations.

My friend asked me to go get our costumes — we are going as Frankenstein, Witch, Skeleton, and Darth Vader — my friend’s husband loves Star Wars. We will bring along the cutest little witch and the cutest little vampire ever born! (Are vampires born? Are witches?)

We will be attending a party, then we’ll go to a haunted garden with routes for us to follow and be scared by mummies, vampires, skeletons, monsters… Then we will have a night picnic and later we come home to watch horror movies.

After picking up our costumes, my husband told me our friends could not pick up the remaining decorations for our house: spider webs, skeletons, coffins, bats, spiders (argh I hate this part!), and vampires teeth.

We also had to pick up skeleton and bat jelly beans and a wicked cake shaped as a cemetery with lots of coffins and haunted creatures.

No one else could go, so, I had to. As I stood there, waiting I got THE text!

What??? How can someone tell me this without warning? By text message?!

I heard about breaking up through text but this feels even worse!

I completely fell apart. Could not stand on my feet.

Couldn't help but fall down and into tears. I wanted to know if everyone was ok but I could not even call them.

I did not know how to do it.

When I tried to, it seemed like I did not know any number. I could not search any names either. I blacked out.

People saw me collapsing and helped me get up from the floor but I did not have enough strength in my legs to stand.

They gave me a hot chocolate — I asked for a strong cup of coffee instead, but they insisted…

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